Gran Turismo Series

While Gran Turismo 6 is just about to appear over the horizon on a still-unknown platform, Sony appears committed to promoting Gran Turismo 5 on the PlayStation 3 in the immediate future.

The latest Seasonal Events are now available in GT5, featuring Japanese cars built in the 1990’s. Five expert level races touring some of the most scenic locations available in the game, and the rewards are just as high as they’ve come to be in these expert level challenges.

A new update to Gran Turismo 5 is now available, version 2.12. At just 24MB in size, the update appears to primarily address the “hacked” or “hybrid” cars in the game.

Late last week, Polyphony Digital announced two upcoming maintenance periods for Gran Turismo 5’s online services, each of which will last for approximately two hours:

Polyphony Digital launched a new look for the official Gran Turismo website today in Hong Kong, Japan, Korea, Singapore, Taiwan.

NewEgg, one of the largest electronics retailers, has made the jump as the first major online store to add Gran Turismo 6 to their catalog. As first picked up by PlayStation Lifestyle, they have listed the game as a PlayStation 3 title with an estimated release date of November 2013.

The latest Seasonal Events are now available in GT5, featuring supercars built on or before 1979. Five expert level events touring some of the most widely used locations available in the game, and the rewards are high.

If you’ve been playing Gran Turismo online at any point in the last couple of months, it probably hasn’t escaped your attention that there are a whole lot of cars out there that just seem to be too fast.

The latest Seasonal Events are now available in GT5, featuring a variety of high performance fun. There are no restrictions on the vehicle or tuning used in this week’s drift events but tires are limited to Comfort/Soft compounds or less. The challenges are as follows:

The latest Seasonal Events are now available in Gran Turismo 5, featuring five expert level challenges touring a selection of the game’s most scenic locations in the stylish and crafty Mini Cooper. Cars are limited to a maximum of 450PP and Sports/Hard tires or less.

This week’s Seasonal Events are accompanied by the introduction of the new “Overtake Challenge”, which places you in three different vehicles with the objective being to overtake as many vehicles as possible on a specific section of the track. Caution is advised in these new challenges as crashing or running off of the track will result in immediate disqualification.

The lengthy history of the Gran Turismo series has resulted in a lot of obscure titles and other memorabilia over the years, making it very popular with collectors worldwide.

Since GTPlanet reader Joel Hadar first discovered this abandoned circuit in Iowa held a striking resemblance with Gran Turismo’s Deep Forest Raceway, the old track has found itself in the spotlight once again.

The latest Seasonal Event challenges are now available in Gran Turismo 5, featuring NASCAR. Cars are limited to a maximum of 650PP and Racing/Hard tires or less.

The latest round of Time and Drift Trial Seasonal Events are now available in Gran Turismo 5, featuring vehicles from the Dodge brand, one of which being the Viper SRT10 ACR.

“Deep Forest Raceway” has been a popular staple in every major Gran Turismo game released since 1997. It has long been considered and classified as an entirely fictional circuit, created by Kazunori Yamauchi and his team at Polyphony Digital.

SCEE CEO Jim Ryan has made new comments which may support Vice President Michael Denny’s statement that Gran Turismo 6 is coming to the PlayStation 3 console.

As the news spreads that Gran Turismo 6 may be headed to the PlayStation 3, sparked by SCEE Vice President Michael Denny’s recent comments, the situation is gathering more attention and investigation by larger media outlets.

Note the “Performance Difference Bonus” applies, so more credits will be awarded for using a slower car below the maximum allowed PP value.